Life — April 7, 1910 — page 69: what you’re looking at

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v ENETIAN AWNINGS for outatde and inside. ‘an outdoor room. Mention L(/¢ for free pamphlet. Orders sboald be JAMES G ‘3 an t, 3 Rota SPARKS FRot OLD ANVILS Jack and Gill A Criticism Portion, Rolie food Block Floors. The fastidious reader will doubtless smile when he is informed that our poem consists only of six lines; but as there is no reason why a poet should be restricted in his number of verses, as it would be a very sad mis- fortune if every rhymer were obliged to write a long as well as a bad poem, and more particularly as these verses contain more beauties than we often find in a poem of four thousand, all objections to its brevity should cease. I must at the same time acknowledge that at first I doubted in what class of poetry it should be arranged. Its ex- treme shortness and its uncommon metre seemed to degrade it into a ballad; but its interesting subject, its unity of plan, and, above all, its having a beginning, middle and an end, decide its claim to the epic rank. I shall now PLAYER-PIANO Enables Anyone to Play Any Music Artistically Perhaps you are a man, young or old, absorbed all day by affairs—the ANGELUS enables you to play the piano in your leisure hours whenever your mood seeks expression in music Perhaps you are a woman, whose accomplishments do not include the piano—the ANGELUS is a never failing source of delightful entertainment for yourself and all who come into your home Perhaps you have children not especially qualified for musical careers or training—they can have all the pleasure and culturing influence of good music played by themselves or others proceed with the candor, though not | upon the ANGELUS. You can have at any time an impromptu musicale, classical, operatic, with the acuteness, of a good critic, to popular—music for an informal dance—a perfect accompaniment for songs—an hour or hours = by yourself with the masters—a// with an ANGELUS. The wonderful exclusive and patented devices that make ANGELUS music personal and responsive music—not in any sense mechanical—but Auman. The Phrasing Lever The Melodant which makes the tempo absolutely subject to your which “clears! the melody and subdues the ‘own sense of expression, eliminating all suggestion accompaniment, fof mechanical or automatic" time."* Tt is the most important device on any Piano Player. The ‘‘Artistyle’’ Music Rolls which indicate s0 plainly that you cannot be coo The Melody Buttons fused, every variation in tone and tempo—yet and responsive pedals, which do for the tones what the Phrasing Lever doce for the tempo, affording permit you to preserve your own individuality in every measure you play. the most delicate tonal shades and variations, from loudest to softest, Tho To fally real Egyptian Orn Cigarette of Quality — analyze and display its various excel- happy; for, instead of telling us, ¢ all that the possession of an ANGELUS would mean to you, and why your selection should absolutely be am ‘write for a catalog and play upon the instrument yourself at the local agency whose address we will send you, Owners of ANGELUS instraments using S8-note rolls pet up in black boxes will bear something to their advantage by writing direct to us. THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY, Ponert inthe Sana/acter of Pameplaying Devis. MERIDEN, CONN, Regent House Regent Street ,as an AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY > At your Club or Dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. lencies. The opening of the poem is singular- ly beautiful : Jack and Gill. The first duty of the poet is to introduce his subject, and there is no part of poetry more difficult. We are told by the great critic of an- tiquity that we should avoid begin- ing “ab ovo,” but go into the business at once. Here our author is very 683 ordinary writer would have done, who were the ancestors of Jack and Gill, that the grandfather of Jack was a respectable farmer, that his mother kept a tavern at the sign of the Blue Bear, and that Gill's father was a « justice of the peace (once of the quorum), together with a catalogue of uncles and aunts, he introduced them to us at once in their proper persons. (Continued on page 654) comicbooks.com